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Make RESYNC port secured

Why is it useful?Making the DB2 resync port secure will protect it from getting hacked or allowing unsecured connections to a port that could be used to serve data from the mainframe for nefarious purposes beyond two-phase commit work. Who would b...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Planned for future release

Make it possible to use relative paths, environment variables, and clustername in #include paths

Currently, there is no way to say add a file in the lsb.queues file as using any of these patterns: #include "./lsb.queues.cloud" #include "/some/path/{{ cluster }}/lsb.queues.cloud" #include "$LSF_ENVDIR/lsb.queues.cloud" Having support with any ...
2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1

bhist - Add support for customized output format ("-o" option)

Some LSF CLI commands support customized output format ("-o" option). For example, bjobs command:bjobs -o "JOBID USER JOB_NAME START_TIME" Currently "bhist" command doesn't support "-o" parameter and it would be appreciated if it can be added in t...
5 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Future consideration

Allow removal of a host from an advance reservation while reservation jobs are running on the host

Currently a host needs to be completely empty of reservation jobs before it can be removed from the advance reservation using the "brsvmod rmhost" command. Given how an "open" reservation will not terminate jobs once the relevant reservation is ex...
5 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 2 Future consideration

Will like to see default change for enableSysplexWLB from false to true since this property is mostly applicable to Db2 z/OS

We have lots and lots on JDBC connections to our Db2 z/OS servers. We also have a very large number of Db2 z/OS subsystems. About 98 % of those are Data Sharing. We are seeing large concentration of connections on only one particular member of the...
3 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted

Support data modules in Event Agent

Event Agent (aka Event Studio) is still very important to work with alerts and events but is limitted to packages. As data modules get more importance we urgently need support of data modules in Event Agent (or future/modernized version of Event A...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

DB2DIAG.log presence on all clients

DB2DIAG.LOG has a great value, when trouble shooting applications and certificates. Often as DBA we dont have acces to the clients servers etc. So having the users retrieve a copy of the db2diag.log and send it, is very helpfull. Our endusers uses...
3 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Submitted

Integrity Validation of SW and Updates

In order to complain with the Security Framework Controls of a product which uses Db2 connect SW the following requirement should be fullfilled: "Before applying the software and security updates, their legitimate source should be validated and in...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 2 Planned for future release

Update the Open Source CLI commands package

Having this makes it easier to build interfaces to the data.
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 0 Future consideration

Consider AMD ccd in affinity string

Hello, Currently, using affinity string, we can target a core, a numa, a socket or memory, but not an AMD CCD (Core Complex Dies, L3 cache shared by 8 or 16 cores) Allowing jobs requesting less cores than available in a CCD (8 or 16 currently) to ...
6 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Planned for future release